Word: drollness
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Some of the film's touches recall the days when there wasn't even a suggestion, in English comedies, of straining for sly humor and droll situation. For example, while the meek here waits in the street, three women wrangle over his future in progressively laundering voices. At the peak of feminine fury a revival parade marches by, bearing a banner: BEEWARE THE WRATH TO COME. These unexpected dividends of chuckles, like the prize in Crackerjack, are the more welcome for being quite detached from the plot and from one's expectations...
...curtain raiser, there is, for some reason or other, Alfred de Musset's A Door Must Be Open Or Shut, a one act play of trivial epigram and some humor, featuring the well-developed acting of Leslie Cass as a teasing and flirting Marquise. Joseph Mitchell plays a droll, glib Count with too much seriousness, and in too much of a hurry, leaving any timing up to the capable Miss Cass. The program notwithstanding, there was no indication that the play had a director, both Miss Cass and Mitchell fending--and fairly well--for themselves...
...only possible criticism of this droll and well conceived show is that Miss Lollabrigia is too little in view. Sharing Philippe's dreams with two other women (this makes the picture a fantasy) she has a smaller part than in Fan Fan or Beat The Devil. Fortunately, the tiny amount of time she is on the screen is matched by the costume she wears. As a luscious houri, Miss Lollabirgia is well outfitted for balmy desert breezes, and is also quite logically clad for a scene in a bath...
...Another droll one is "The Old School Special." Usually left to parental supervision, it is perfected from early childhood. When a specialist in this field travels away from home, and wishes to assure his family that he reached his destination, he makes a person-to-person call to himself at home. This, of course, is rewarding to all concerned, save...
...Another droll touch was added to Fools' Week as six Ponies staged a race on tricycles and roller skates in front of Widener yesterday. With utter disregard for the solemn procession, the police attempted tempted to disperse the fascinated spectators...